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[KenWright]

"The program has issued a command but the command length is incorrect - See your sysadmin."

Even happens on the Guest account which shouldn't have a password on it as far she recalls.

When they try hitting F8 to boot into safemode they just get a question asking them what they want to boot from, Floppy / IDE / CDROM and then it boots normally.

Any ideas anyone.

Regards
Ken.............

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[bcastner]

http://www.mcse.ms/message1295899.html

 

[KenWright]

Bill, I may have said this before but 'You da man!!'

Even when only half the damned post appeared you still got it. I'd posted it in the wrong forum by mistake, so copied (or so I thought) and pasted into here.

Now, only other thing is, when they hit F8 to try and get into safe mode they don't see the last known configuration etc, but get a choice of bootup location. Machine is a Packard Bell if it makes any difference, but is there anything other than F8 to get to safemode?

( And Happy new Year :-> )

Cheers
Ken............

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[bcastner]

Happy New Year to you Ken.

You are hitting F8 too early. Let the BIOS finish, then hit F8.

If desperate:

. Let it boot normally then shut it off. On restart, it should give you the options menu because "Windows XP was not shut down normally"

. You could use a boot floppy. Edit the boot.ini file and include a /SAFEBOOT:minimal switch after /fastdetect:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q305/5/95.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

[KenWright]

Cheers Bill - She just couldn't get there with F8, but crashing it did the trick - many thanks

Regards
Ken.............

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[bcastner]

Ugly, but what the heck.

Best regards,
Bill

 

[KenWright]

rotflmao - I give up - she just called me again and said that despite getting to that screen she couldn't actually get to that option because the keyboard wouldn't work. It's a USB keyboard, but is that normal for those. Strangely enough exactly the same thing happened to me today and i couldn't choose any options (New USB Fingerprint keyboard). Never had a problem before with other normal keyboards, but this is my first USB one. Hmmmm.

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[bcastner]

Is BIOS support for USB enabled?

 

[KenWright]

LOL - I'm assuming then that this is an option in the BIOS that just has to be set in order to make it work?

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[bcastner]

It should. No gaurantees.

 

[skipholiday]

It matter's on some mb's,they will try and boot @ usb and not detect the other drive's.
Try and use ps2 keyboard and see if u get the same error.